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Heberto Padillo s confession 50 years on As Cuba once again cracks down on artists and intellectuals, twenty have joined together with artist Coco Fusco to recreate the Cuban poet s act of public penance 27 Apr 2021 Heberto Padilla, photo: Elisa Cabot, CC BY-SA 2.0 Fifty years ago today, the Cuban poet Heberto Padilla made a dramatic public confession at the Union of Artists and Writers of Cuba under the watchful eye of State Security agents. In his The confession sent shockwaves around the world. Two days earlier, Padilla had been released from a 36-day detention at Cuba’s State Security headquarters. Padilla had fallen foul of the island’s authorities after his return from an extended stay in the Soviet Union, where he opened Cuba’s first press agency in Moscow and befriended dissident poets.

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